Help Students Feel Comfortable With Canvas

There are three key ways to help students feel comfortable with Canvas:

Orient them to Canvas
Provide them with resources on how to technically complete your Canvas course activities
Make their lives easier by letting them know how to customized their Canvas settings (the bells and whistles) and use the Canvas app

Here are a list of resources to embed in your own Course so that students can effectively engage with your course and know how to submit work.

Orientation to Canvas Video
Directions on how to complete Canvas activities
Canvas settings for students
Videos for students

Orientation to Canvas Video

You can embed the SWC Canvas Student Orientation video below into your course (English or Spanish version):

English Video

Here is the URL: https://youtu.be/nbU7vrTPdD8?
Embed information: <iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nbU7vrTPdD8?si=glXmId41I7PnWrys?%20feature=oembed&rel=0" width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe>

Spanish Video

Here is the URL: https://youtu.be/-tQvip37P2c?si
Embed information: <iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-tQvip37P2c?si=gLOLqZP2wJ8MfKSU?%20feature=oembed&rel=0" width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe>

Directions on how to complete Canvas activities

Make it easy for students to complete course activities by including directions on how to complete their work using Canvas. Simply copy+paste the links you see below into your course, according to activity.

Assignments

Video Overviews of Assignments

Submission

How do I submit an online assignment?
How do I upload a file as an assignment submission in Canvas?
How do I upload a file from Google Drive as an assignment submission in Canvas?
How do I submit a text entry assignment?
How do I enter a URL as an assignment submission?
How do I submit a media file as an assignment submission?

Grading

How do I know when my assignment has been submitted?
How do I know when my instructor has graded my assignment?
How do I view rubric results for my assignment?

Discussions

Submission

How do I reply to a discussion as a student?
- How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as a student?
- How do I link to a YouTube video in a discussion reply as a student?
How do I edit or delete discussion replies as a student?
How do I view the rubric for my graded discussion?

Grading

How do I view my grades in a current course?

Quizzes

Submission

How do I take a quiz?
How do I answer each type of question in a quiz?
How do I submit a quiz?

Grading

Canvas settings for students

Let your students know they can update their Canvas settings to make Canvas more productive for them!

How do I set my Canvas notification preferences as a student?
How do I change my default email address in my user account as a student?
How do I add a profile picture in my user account as a student?
How do I change the language preference in my user account as a student?
How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Google Calendar as a student?
How do I view the Calendar iCal feed to subscribe to an external calendar as a student?
How can I use Canvas on my mobile device as a student?
Canvas Student Android Guide
How can I use Canvas on my mobile device as a student?
Canvas Student iOS Guide

Videos for students

These videos can be shared with the students in your course. Simply click the "share" arrow in the top right of the video to copy the link to the video.

Before you click "Next," please work through all the tabbed sections on this page.